Coldbones – Where It All Began

Coldbones are a post-rock band fresh out of Kent, having been working on their craft and building their fanbase over the past few years. Combining elements of shoegaze, metal and progressive rock into their post-rock sound, they’ve honed their skills with the release of 2014’s Distance EP and have since signed to Crooked Noise Records…

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Sinsaenum – Repulsion for Humanity

Sinsaenum is an interesting prospect for a supergroup. Headed up by guitarist Frédéric Leclercq of DragonForce fame and Joey Jordison (currently of Vimic, formerly of Murderdolls and Slipknot), the pair are given a platform to explore their more extreme tastes in metal with the assistance of Sean Zatorsky (Dååth), Stéphane Buriez (Loudblast), Attila Csihar (Mayhem)…

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Lowlives – Burn Forever

Burn Forever is the debut EP from Lowlives, who despite being a new band are far from inexperienced. Featuring former members of The Defiled, No Devotion and The Ataris it’s easy to understand why this band have already caught a lot of attention already The EP opens with the title track, greeting us with some screeching feedback before the first riff…

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Trophy Eyes - The American Dream

Trophy Eyes – The American Dream

In a climate where a lot of pop-punk (emo/melo-hardcore/whatever-you-want-to-call-them-core) bands are sounding like their contemporaries and not doing much to change things up, people are crying for bands that are doing something different, and along come Australian 5-piece Trophy Eyes. Whilst their debut certainly wasn’t anything unique, they’ve always been very good at what they…

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URNE – The Mountain of Gold

Hang the Bastard’s demise was the premature demise of another great British band far too soon. Thankfully, from the ashes rises something new and URNE’s debut EP is a wonderful return for a group of musicians that have been absurdly overlooked over the past few years. Combining the duo at the heart of Chapters, and…

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Halestorm – Vicious

Vicious was always going to be an important album for Halestorm. After the commercial and critical success of what is arguably the bands best album ‘The Strange Case of…’ and the somewhat more experimental albeit well meaning follow up ‘Into the Wild Life’ everybody was waiting to see what would come next. Enter Vicious, the…

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Real Friends – Composure

Pop Punk gets a bad rap. Tarred with the kiddie brush and knocked off as a phase as well as something you will just grow out of.  While it does go down the candyfloss and bubblegum route more than its contemporaries the genre at its best when it toughens itself up or spreads it wings….

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